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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · 2d

The BASTARD!! Sounds like it was a good pub though 🍺

Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · 4d

In a rather curious turn of events, I appear to have completed my Xmas shopping and wrapping. What will December feel like without the stress of procrastination?

a cartoon of a person sitting on a dock next to a body of water with the words me chores work diet and next week

Alt: a cartoon of a person sitting on a dock next to a body of water with the words me chores work diet and next week

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · 4d

Not at all, I’ll give you the job myself if you have video evidence 🤭

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · 4d

I refer to those occasions as “getting snippered”

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · 5d

Now I’m not saying I could work for a pro cycling team BUT..
I could do that (and probably would 🤦‍♂️)

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · 8d

Agreed!!!! But it did free my Sunday up 75km early I’d already heard the commentary track

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · 19d

Blink and you would have missed it

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 19d

Bring back Sure Start.

It worked, it affected generational change and they've got the data to prove it.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19d

Can someone let me know how many such "deprived-area" funds have been created in the last 15 years? Got to be coming up for one a year surely?

And how did we get to politics on repeat like this?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer gambles on ‘levelling up’-style initiative to tackle Reform threat

Deprived communities to be given tens of millions to patch up derelict shops, pubs and libraries and ‘restore pride’

www.theguardian.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20d

Jamie Raskin FTW.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 23d

Okay, I’m so tired I have no filter. Here’s a couple of midnight hot takes:

1) I don’t like lace on bras and I don’t know why it’s sexy. It’s a weird artefact of when lace was a luxury which was like 100 years ago and I refuse to feel hot looking like I’m growing floral moss out of my armpits.

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 29d

Musk sharing an AI generated image of the Arc de Triomphe with loads of England and Union flags thinking it's London is peak information disorder.

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · 29d

Exactly that, I’m not saying they would have won, but they could have raced as a team to at least try

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · 29d

And they could have had three grand tours 🤷‍♂️

Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · 29d

While Visma Lease a Bike secure their 2nd grand tour of the year. I can’t help thinking that UAE lost 2. When Pog isn’t in a team, they have no strategy

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · Sep 10

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · Sep 11

Maybe this should tell us something about the current construction of the American media environment.

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · Sep 10

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

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🌈💚 The Anxious Cyclist ft. Sepp Wuff 🐶 @noukbikemind.bsky.social · Sep 9

As long as the majority of world leaders and big media refuse to acknowledge that what's happening in #Gaza is a genocide and remain silent when Israel keeps bombing countries, ALL PLACES ARE THE RIGHT PLACES TO PROTEST!

And with IPT being in this Vuelta, I'd say #LaVuelta25 is the perfect place.

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · Sep 9

I would have been fully behind them sharing a top step

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · Sep 9

The reaction globally would be massive if they followed through on it. Fingers crossed something somehow gets them to knock it on the head sooner rather than later

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · Sep 9

Or better still, uci/race organisers tell them to leave

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · Sep 9

While I thought I would be happy to see either of them win. I’m still a little gutted one of them had to lose. #LaVuelta25

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you Mads! #LaVuelta25

Anna Mac 👑🪱 🌈🖤 @annamacb.bsky.social · Sep 7

Mads we are relying on you today 🙏🏻

#LaVuelta25

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · Sep 6

Apropos of nothing, here is a list of product providers I will be avoiding in the future

List of IPT’s product partners/ sponsors

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · Sep 6

“So, you’re a Reform voter? What attracted you to the party run by a lying, racist, dog-whistling, tax-avoiding, ex-public schoolboy who cares not a jot about women subjected to violence or working class people like you?”

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Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · Sep 5

I can’t hear his name without singing this to myself #LaVuelta25

Sam @samlikeybikey.bsky.social · Jan 2

Iykyk

Team ineo picture but Jungels is massive

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